Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261478AbUKAHgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 02:36:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261504AbUKAHgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 02:36:42 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33926 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261478AbUKAHgk (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 02:36:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 02:36:28 -0500 (EST) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@thoron.boston.redhat.com To: Marc Bevand cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [rc4-amd64] RC4 optimized for AMD64 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 27 On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Marc Bevand wrote: > I have just published a small paper about optimizing RC4 for > AMD64 (x86-64). A working implementation is also provided: > > http://epita.fr/~bevand_m/papers/rc4-amd64.html > > Kernel people may be interested given the fact that Linux > already implements RC4. Only problem is that the setkey code is released under a GPL incompatible license. Although it's probably not difficult to make the kernel's existing C setkey code to work with the new asm code. - James -- James Morris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/